Shipwrecks · Pinar del Río
SS George Calvert (1942)
SS George Calvert (1942) is a shipwreck at 22°55′00″N 84°25′59″W in Pinar del Río province. SS George Calvert was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after George Calvert, an English politician and colonizer. Calvert took an interest in the British colonization of the Americas, becoming the proprietor of the Province of Avalon, the first sustained English settlement on the southeastern peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. He later sought a new royal charter to settle the region, which would become the state of Maryland.
SS George Calvert (1942): coast and water
44810 m at 150°: Punta Tabaco (point); 45650 m at 140°: Ensenada de Baja (bay); 46310 m at 139°: Pasa Las Barbacoas (channel); 46830 m at 144°: Playa Alejo (beach); 46970 m at 153°: Ensenada Limones (bay); 47070 m at 130°: Punta Canal Blanco (point); 47610 m at 168°: Ensenada del Cedro (bay); 47760 m at 131°: Laguna Caraballo (lagoon); 48130 m at 125°: Punta Nombre de Dios (point); 48190 m at 122°: Ensenada Nombre de Dios (bay); 48360 m at 134°: Ensenada Río del Medio (bay); 49040 m at 170°: Punta Vinagrera (point); 49240 m at 156°: Ensenada San Felipe (bay); 49700 m at 112°: Fondeadero Exterior (anchorage).
SS George Calvert (1942): islands
47340 m at 119°: Cayo Jutías (island); 47780 m at 166°: Cayo Rapado Grande (island); 49040 m at 153°: Cayo Dos Hermanos (island group); 49650 m at 166°: Cayo Babún (island); 50070 m at 154°: Cayo Largo (island); 51340 m at 164°: Cayo Murias (island); 54420 m at 118°: Cayos La Garza (island group); 57490 m at 111°: Los Cayuelos (island group).
SS George Calvert (1942): inland
48160 m at 148°: Fundora (locality); 50150 m at 142°: La Jocuma (locality); 50500 m at 152°: Cayo Largo (locality); 50610 m at 126°: Río Nombre de Dios (stream); 51330 m at 144°: San Ramón (settlement); 51800 m at 139°: Varona (locality).
SS George Calvert (1942): distances
46060 m at 144°: Playa Alejo; 53410 m at 164°: Playa Las Canas; 55940 m at 121°: Santa Lucía; 207420 m at 87°: José Martí International Airport ; 172550 m at 87°: Port of Mariel (port); 128080 m at 205°: Marina Gaviota Cabo de San Antonio (marina).
SS George Calvert (1942): marine life records
2 records of 2 species within 8 km, 1996 to 1996: 2 fish. That is 1.0 records per 100 km².
Most recorded: Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, 1 (fish); Thunnus obesus, 1 (fish).
Records show where people have surveyed, not how many animals there are.
SS George Calvert (1942): notes
Do not remove anything from a wreck; many are war graves or protected.
Sources and data
Name and position: Wikipedia (coordinates) (record). Distances are straight-line measurements from these coordinates. Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar. Named places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Positions from public gazetteers can be approximate, so confirm a location with a local operator before you travel. For a wreck this is the sinking or wreck site recorded in Wikidata or Wikipedia; the hull may since have been raised, moved or broken up.